Dr. Zack Wood

02/11/2025

I love this! …. And also reinforces why I try to stick to the Japanese diet. Why can’t we do this in the US?

01/28/2025

Snowshoe, WV. So cool to take the wife and kids here to my home state and the best resort on the East coast. I grew up skiing here 30 years ago. The kids are pros now and love it. And the wife always looks good on her board! ❤️👍🏼❄️⛷️🏂

09/23/2024

Me and my boy at Wrightsville beach 🏝️

08/29/2024

Did this one with my daughter Lily a couple years ago. I love how the use of colored paper makes certain other colors pop. 👍🏼😁

08/28/2024

My beautiful wife Amber and I lived in the Napa area for 8 years. Nice to come back and see family and friends after 5 years. When we first moved to CA in 2011 we weren’t even engaged. Now we’ve been married 12 years and have 2 kids in tow…… How time flies. I love you. ❤️

07/27/2022

Please check out my interview with Buzz TV! Great speaking with the host regarding our concierge medical practice that his mobile to your home! We are changing the game in primary care. 🩺😄👍🏼

Each week on "Ask the Doc," our host Alex Alexander sits down with physicians from all over town and asks them the important questions about health. Today, Alex had the honor to sit down with Dr. Mona F**d with Mona Dermatology.

01/25/2022

Great info here! Let your food be your medicine is always my motto.

Side note: it lists grains as one of the food groups. While whole grains have benefit, beware of processes grains like white flour. And avoid starches when trying to lose weight. 👍🏼

As if you needed one more excuse to have sweet potatoes with every single meal.

01/03/2022

Happy New Year! 🎊🎉🎇

Don’t kill yourself working out!

Everyone has a New Years resolution and many want to lose weight and get in shape. While it’s good to exercise regularly, the key to losing weight is DIET, DIET, DIET.

How many people have gotten frustrated with working out and not losing weight?? 🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏾‍♀️

You are stuck on what I call the “SUGAR HAMSTER WHEEL.”

You eat carbs (sugar) and you burn carbs and you think you just need to work out more! … But you lose little weight. When what you should do is cut out all the carbs.

The ketogenic diet is named so because it puts your body into a ketotic state or “ketosis” which means it’s forming a type of acid called a ketone.

(When diabetics no longer make insulin they start forming ketones when they cannot burn sugar in their cells. This is called Diabetic Ketoacidosis or DKA.)

When you remove carbs and sugars from your diet and your metabolism shifts you will form ketones. A “ketogenic” diet will get you there and these ketones are measurable in your urine. This is absolutely key to losing weight.

So don’t kill yourself going to the gym this winter! ……Exercise regularly, but focus more attention to WHAT YOU’RE EATING. 👍🏼😁

“Let your food be your medicine.”

-Hippocrates

11/08/2021

Teflon pans. 👎🏼🚫

Teflon and other coated, non-stick pans have been linked to cancer. (Side note: DuPont also created one of the worst environmental hazards in the history of the world in making them and continues to do so.)

Societies knew for centuries which metals to cook on and which metals were toxic. Somehow this was lost in the name of convenience. ….

Cast iron and copper are the preferred pans to cook with, uncoated of course. These metals will actually be added to your food when you cook in these and have health benefits. Stainless steel is also fine and non-toxic, however without the added benefit of copper and cast iron.

Throw your Teflon coated pans in the garbage!

And with cast iron you will be surprised at how much better your food tastes! 👍🏼😁🍳

In my practice I teach people how to be healthy naturally and avoid disease through diet. The proper diet starts with healthy practices, even right down to the pans you cook with. 😉

10/22/2021

DON’T DRINK THE WATER! 💧🧪🚱

Aluminum fluoride, fluorosilicic acid (FSA), and other fluoride compounds are being put in our drinking water and have been by the government since the 40s.

These fluoride compounds are toxic and have been proven to be involved in a whole array of cognitive disorders like autism, adhd, cerebral palsy, and Alzheimer’s disease. There is also evidence of them causing osteoporosis and dental fluorosis.

In the 1940s the government had a problem. There was an abundance of aluminum and fluoride compounds that were left over from the production of synthetic fertilizers and gasoline. They needed somewhere to put it other than the toxic waste pools that are littered throughout the country, so they started slowly dripping it into our drinking water….. A practice that still exists today. 😱🚱

The American Dental Association (ADA) at the time stated publicly that fluoride was good for your teeth to gain public and government support for dumping these toxic chemicals into our water. As a result all of these neurologic disorders and other bone and teeth mineralization disorders have skyrocketed over the last 80 years!

The ADA years ago actually retracted and publicly stated the no child under the age of 6 should ingest fluoride of any kind, however it’s still in our toothpaste and drinking water. People today still believe the lie that fluoride is good for your teeth, however this is false. But remember when you look it up you’ll see conflicting information. …. However there’s a big reason Europe does not practice water fluoridation.

FYI whole house filters do not remove these compounds. You need a reverse osmosis filter in order to have fluoride free water. I have had one for many years and it’s the only water we drink and cook with. We also take our own bottled water with us as a family when we travel.

You know the crisp metallic taste to your tap water? …. THAT’S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THERE!

And don’t be fooled by bottled water!!!! It’s no better than your tap! The only bottled water company that is fluoride free, as far as I know, is smart water. If you’re going to buy water, buy that one.

And PLEASE never, ever drink from your tap! 👍🏼

09/30/2021

Grass fed and pasture raised meats. 🥩🍗

Why is this important?

Don’t be fooled by packing labels! Most people think that when they see the labels “free range” and “organic” on the packaging that they are buying something that is healthy for them, but it is simply not true. What the animals are eating makes all the difference.

Just because the animals are eating all organic corn diets doesn’t mean it is a healthy diet. Grains like corn are high in sugar. That high sugar diet translates into a fatter animal. However, the fats that are in the meat are not healthy fats. Those animals have higher concentrations of omega-6 fatty acids which has been proven to be inflammatory. That inflammation leads to damage of your blood vessels and vascular disease.

🥩Believe it or not the grass fed beef that you can now find in the grocery store is healthier for you than the free range all organic chicken. That is because of the types of fats in the meat. And it’s actually quite difficult to find pasture raised chicken that is not grain fed. 

Animals that are raised naturally and fed their natural diet (which does not include grains) form much higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids. Omega-3 fatty acids are proven to be anti-inflammatory in their chemical properties and are actually prescribed by physicians like myself for the treatment of heart disease and vascular disease. Everyone has heard of fish oil tablets which is exactly that, omega-3 fatty acids. However instead of taking this supplement, people are better off eating the right kinds of fats to begin with.

I recommend people buy their meats locally or online and not to buy much of the meat you find in the grocery store. Above all stay away from grain fed meats!

In my practice I teach people how to use food to treat and prevent disease. Your diet should be the most important thing in your life. If you eat the right kinds of fats you will avoid major vascular disease as you age.

“Let your food be your medicine.”

-Hippocrates